Apparatus for producing therapeutical effects



S. N. BARUCH.

APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING THERAPEUTICAL EFFECTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14. 19w.

1,425,743. i Patented Aug. 15, 1922.

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APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING THERAPEUTICAL To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYDNEY Nonron BARUCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco. State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Producing Therapeutical Effects, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a process of producing therapeutical effects and to an apparatus for carrying out such process.

An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus for producing dielectric or electrostatic h steresis within the body.

Another ob ect of the invention is to produce an alternating electrostatic field of a plurality of different fre uencies, whereby a heterodyne effect is pro need.

The loss of power in the dielectric in an alternating current electrostatic field consists of two distinctly different components, of which one is directly proportional to the frequency (analogous to magnetic hysteresis) and thus a constant loss of energy per cycle, independent of the frequency, while the other component is proportional to the square of the frequency (analogous to the loss of power by eddy currents) and thus a loss of energy per cycle proportional to the frequency. The first loss is probably true dielectric static hysteresis and the second loss is the viscous component of dielectric hysteresis. If the loss of power by electrostatic hysteresis is proportional to the square of the frequency and of the field intensity, then it is proportional to the square of the electromotive force. In the apparatus of my invention I have provided means for producing a plurality of different frequencies and also for interrupting the various frequencies at different times, so that a rapidly varying frequency is produced. In one form of apparatus which I have constructed and which is producing remarkable therapeutic effects, particularly in the reduction of blood pressure, the frequencies are varied from cycles (alternating current supply) up to radio frequency. Since the dielectric hysteresis constitutes a power loss, this power is consumed in the dielectric and the greater the electrostatic losses, the greater will be the effect produced in the dielectric. The current which I employ is a high potential current and the frequencies are high, so that the power con- Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 14,

Patented Aug. 15, 1922. 1919. Serial No. 297,102.

sumed in the dielectric is great and due to the presence of different frequencies at the same time, remarkable therapeutic effects are produced.

In accordance with my invention, I place the body of the patient being treated in the electrostatic field, so that the body forms the dielectric and the electrostatic hystere- SIS losses occur therein. I am not aware of all of the physical or therapeutical effects WlllCll flow from the subjection of the bod to the varied and changing frequency field but it operates to increase to a degree the general metabolism by inducing functional activity. This activity is apparently manifested throughout the whole body, increasing the elimination of solids and carbon dloz nde throughout the body and also pro- ;lucmg marked eifects upon general nutri- The invention possesses other advantageous features, some of which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full t at form 'of the apparatus which I have selected for illustration in the drawing accompanyin and forming part ofthe present specification. In said drawing I have shown one form of the apparatus of my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form, since the invention as set forth in the claims, may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

The drawing is a diagrammatic representation of the apparatus of my invention.

The process of my invention consists in producing electrostatic hysteresis losses in the body by placing it in an electrostatic field of varying fre uency or of a pluralit of frequencies where y a heterodyne effect is produced. This is accomplished by placing the body between the plates of a condenser which are connected in circuit in which currents of different fre uencies are produced. When applied to the ody for effecting the reduction of high blood pressure I am of the opinion that the effect of the electrostatic hysteresis is to induce local currents in the body and these currents assist in freeing the calcium sulphate which has formed or been deposited in the walls of the arteries. The process of reducing blood pressure consists of a series of treatments or subjections of the body to the multi-frequency electrostatic field and during the period in which the treatments are given, the person should eat no substances containing salts which have a tendency to produce calcium sulphate. Also during the period of the treatment the person should partake of magnesium chloride in prescribed doses. The magnesium chloride combines with the freed calcium sulphate to roducecalcium chloride and ma esium su phate both of which are soluble in the small quantities in which they are resent.

e apparatus of my invention comprises a wireless transformer 3, the primary 4 of which is connected to the alternating current supply mains. An adjustable choke coil 5 is arranged in one lead of the rimary, so that the current flow to the trans ormer may be controlled. Connected across the secondmy 6 of the transformer, is an interrupter. preferably a rotary spark gap device. In the present construction I have employed two rotary spark gap devices 12-13, connected in parallel, with the electrodes on one rotary element staggered with relation to the electrodes of the other element, so that a frequency of interruption of double the interruption frequency of one element is roduced. Connected across the interrupter 1s a high frequency oscillatory circuit containing the condenser 7 and the inductance coil 9, which ter and compo of a few turns.

In one apparatus which I have constructed, the frequency of interruption of condenser-inductance circuit is 900 per sec-- ond, but I do not limit myself to any specific interruption frequency. As the rotating element of the interrupter rotates, there are periods of no spark, in which the inductance circuit is open, there are periods of very short spark, when the electrodes are in their closest positions, and there are periods when long sparks are drawn, due to the ionization of the air in the spark gap. During the second period, current of the line freuency is produced in the inductance and as t e sparks are drawn out into the third period, the frequency and potential increases. There is therefore produced in the inductance, a plurality of different frequencies, ranging from the line frequency, through the interrupter frequency to radio frequency or other high frequency.

Connected to the side of the inductance coil 9 adjacent the interrupter is a secondary inductance coil 14, which is also inductively coupled with the coil 9. The coil 14 is provided with a large number of turns of smaller diameter than the coil 9 and is preferably arranged axially with respect to the large coil. The other end of the coil 14 is connected to a condenser plate 15 and the other condenser plate 16 is connected to the juncture of the two inductance coils. The plate 16 is covered with suitable insulation issupreferably large in diame-' and the patient lies directly over such plate, being insulated therefrom. The late 15 is preferably in the form of a flexible screen, covered with insulation material and is placed over the patient, resting on him. The body of the patient thereby forms the condenser dielectric, in which the dielectric hysteresis losses due to the multi-frequency current occur.

I claim:

1. A therapeutic apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of condenser plates, a secondary induction coil connected at its opposite ends to said plates, a primary induction coil inductively connected to said secondary coil and means for producing a plurality of high frequency cu irents out of phase with each other H1 said cm s.

2. A therapeutic apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of condenser plates, a secondary induction coil connected at its opposite ends to said plates,

a primary induction coil inductively con nected to said secondary coil and means for producing a plurality of interrupted high frequency currents out of phase with each other in the coils.

3. A therapeutic apparatus of. the character described comprlsing a pair of condenser plates, a secondary induction coil connected at its opposite ends to said plates, a primary induction coil inductively con nected to said secondar coil and means for producing a. plurality 0 currents of different requencies 1n the primary coil.

4. A therapeutic apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of condenser plates, a secondary induction coil connected at its opposite ends to said plates, a primary induction coil directly and inductively connected to said secondary coil, a source of alternating current of high potential, interruptors, connected out of step with each other across said source, a circuit containing said primary coil in parallel with the interruptors, and a condenser in said circuit.

5. An apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of condenser plates, a secondary induction coil connected at its opposite ends to said plates, a primary' induction coil directly and inductively connected to said secondary coil, a source of alternating current of high potential, a plurality of rota'r spark ga devices connected in parallel an connecte across said source out of step with each other, a circuit containing said primary coil inparallel with the devices and a condenser in said circuit.

6. A therapeutic device comprising a transformer, a pair of condenser plates for application to the human body, and means e ectrically interposed between said transformer and said condenser plates for converting the voltage of said transformer into an intermittent voltage of a varying frequency and for impressing said intermittent volta e on the said condenser plates.

7. therapeutic device comprising a pair of condenser plates, lead wires adapted to be connected to a source of voltage, and means electrically interposed between said plates and said wires for converting the voltage of said source into a voltage of a plurality of frequencies out of phase with each other and for impressing said last named voltage on the said plates.

8. A therapeutic device comprising means for connecting said device to a source of voltage, means for converting said voltage into a voltage of a plurality of frequencies out of phase with each other, and means for applying said last named voltage to the human body.

9. A therapeutic device comprising means for connecting said device to a source of current, means for converting said current into a current of a plurality of high frequencies out of phase with each other, and

means for conducting said last named current to the human body.

10. A therapeutic device comprising a pair of condenser plates, means for connecting said device to a. source of current, and means electrically interposed between the said plates and the first named means for converting the current of the said source into a current of a plurality of frequencies out of phase with each other.

11. A therapeutic device comprising a transformer, a pair of condenser plates for application to the human body, and means electrically interposed between said transformer and said condenser plates for converting the transformer current into an intermittent current of varying high frequencies.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at San Francisco, California, this 24th day of April, 1919.

In presence of-'- H. G. PRosT. 

